Interim Director 2025-2026, Borns Jewish Studies Program
Erna B. Rosenfeld Associate Professor for the Study of Antisemitism
Associate Director, Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism
Associate Professor in the Borns Jewish Studies Program and Germanic Studies
Günther Jikeli holds the Erna B. Rosenfeld Professorship at Indiana University's Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism at the Borns Jewish Studies Program. He is an associate professor in Germanic Studies and Jewish Studies at Indiana University.
He is a historian and sociologist of modern Europe, with particular interests in the history of antisemitism and in critical antisemitism studies. His research focuses on online and offline forms of contemporary antisemitism. He runs the research lab "Social Media & Hate." Dr. Jikeli offers supervision and advice for students who wish to study antisemitism or who are writing a thesis related to antisemitism/ critical antisemitism studies.
Raoul Wallenberg Prize in Human Rights and Holocaust Studies (2013).
Named one of the "top 100 people positively influencing Jewish life" by The Algemeiner in 2019.
Monographs
Von Damaskus nach Berlin. Antisemitismus unter arabischen und kurdischen Geflüchteten aus Syrien, Georg Olms Verlag 2025.
Europe Muslim Antisemitism: Why Young Urban Males Say They Don’t Like Jews, Indiana University Press 2015.
Antisemitismus und Diskriminierungswahrnehmungen junger Muslime in Europa, Klartext 2012.
Edited Volumes
Antisemitismus in Deutschland vor und nach dem 7. Oktober 2023. (With Olaf Glöckner). Georg Olms Verlag 2025.
L'antisémitisme contemporain en France. Rémanences ou émergences ? (With Joëlle Allouche-Benayoun, Claudine Attias-Danfut, and Paul Zawadzki). Hermann: 2022.
The Return of Religious Antisemitism? MDPI Books: 2021.
Das neue Unbehagen. Antisemitismus in Deutschland und Europa heute. (With Olaf Glöckner). Georg Olms Verlag: 2019.
Raketen und Zwangsarbeit in Peenemünde – Die Verantwortung der Erinnerung. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung: 2014.
Perceptions of the Holocaust in Europe and Muslim Communities. Sources, Comparisons and Educational Challenges. Springer Science: 2013 (With Joëlle Allouche-Benayoun).
Umstrittene Geschichte. Wahrnehmungen des Holocaust unter Muslimen im internationalen Vergleich. Campus: 2013 (With Kim Robin Stoller and Joëlle Allouche-Benayoun). [Updated translation of Perceptions of the Holocaust in Europe and Muslim Communities.]
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Memory and Displacement. Syrian-Kurdish Refugees Navigating the Middle East, Israel, and the Holocaust.” In: Ethnicities, October 2024.
“The Universal and The Particular: 10/7 and Its Aftermath Challenges the Very Concept of Humanity.” In: Antisemitism Studies, volume 8, issue 2, October 2024.
“Manipulation of Symbols: Holocaust Denial and Distortion on Social Media Platforms After the October 7 Massacre in Israel.” In: Kodikas/Code 42, 2-4, 2024.
“Holocaustvergleiche auf X/Twitter. Assoziationen deutschsprachiger User zu Juden und der Shoah“ (with Daniel Miehling and Victor Tschiskale). In: Kodikas/Code 42, 2-4, 2024.
“Pluie de cendres sur les universités américaines.” Cités 98, May 2024.
“Annotating Live Messages on Social Media. Testing the Efficiency of the AnnotHate- Live Data Annotation Portal" (with Katharina Soemer and Sameer Karali). In: Journal of Computational Social Science, March 2024.
“The value of manual annotation in assessing trends of hate speech on social media: was antisemitism on the rise during the tumultuous weeks of Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover?” (with Katharina Soemer). In: Journal of Computational Social Science, July 2023: 943 – 971.
“How Do Muslims and Jews in Christian Countries See Each Other Today? A Survey Review.” In: Religions 14 (3): 412 (online publication), March 2023.
“Differences Between Antisemitic and Non-Antisemitic English Language Tweets” (with David Axelrod, Rhonda K. Fischer, Elham Forouzesh, Weejeong Jeong, Daniel Miehling, and Katharina Soemer). In: Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, September 2022.
“Eichmann en prétendu bureaucrate froid ou un mensonge commode pour éviter la responsabilité personnelle en Allemagne.” Translated by Eva Segura. Cités 87, no. 3 (September 20, 2021): 211–230.
“Detecting Anti-Jewish Messages on Social Media. Building an Annotated Corpus That Can Serve as A Preliminary Gold Standard” (with Deepika Awasthi, David Axelrod, Daniel Miehling, Pauravi Wagh, and Weejoeng Joeng). Workshop Proceedings of the 15th International Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Conference on Web and Social Media. US: ICWSM, 2021.
“A Model for Coming to Terms with the Past? Holocaust Remembrance and Antisemitism in Germany since 1945.” In: Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, January 3, 2021, 427-446.
“Assessing the Threat of Antisemitic Harassment and Attack in France—Paris in Focus.” In: Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism, 2020, Volume 3, Issue 3.1, 71-82.
“Is Religion Coming Back as a Source for Antisemitic Views?” In: Religions 2020, 11, 255 (online publication).
“Antisemitic Acts and Attitudes in Contemporary France. The Effects on French Jews.” In: Antisemitism Studies. Volume 2, Issue 2, Fall 2018, 297-320.
“Explaining the Discrepancy of Antisemitic Acts and Attitudes in 21st Century France.” In: Contemporary Jewry. July 2017, Volume 37, Issue 2, 257–273.
“L’antisémitisme en milieux et pays musulmans : débats et travaux autour d’un processus complexe.“ In: Revue d'Histoire Moderne & Contemporaine, numéro spécial, 2015, 62-2/3, 89-114.
“Anti-Semitism in youth language: the pejorative use of the terms for "Jew" in German and French today.” In: conflict & communication online, 2010, 9 (1), 1-13.
Book Chapters
“Rain of Ashes Over Elite American Universities.” In: Rosa Freedman and David Hirsh (eds.): Responses to 7 October: Antisemitic Universities, Routledge: 2024, 67-76. [This is an English version of the journal article “Pluie de cendres sur les universités américaines.”]
“Antisemitismus unter Musliminnen als potentielles Mobilisierungsmittel für islamistische Gruppen. Eine Auswertung von Umfragen zu muslimischem Antisemitismus in westlichen Ländern.“ In: Hendrik Hansen and Armin Pfahl-Traughber (eds.): Jahrbuch für Extremismus- und Terrorismusforschung 2021 - 2023 (II). Band 18. Hochschule des Bundes für öffentliche Verwaltung 2024, 146-183.
“Ascheregen über den amerikanischen Eliteunis.“ In: Tania Martini and Klaus Bittermann (eds.), Nach dem 7. Oktober, Tiamat: 2024, 154-158. [This is a German version of the journal article “Pluie de cendres sur les universités américaines.”]
“Auf dem Weg zu einer KI-Definition von Antisemitismus?“ (with Damir Cavar, Weejeong Jeong, Daniel Miehling, Pauravi Wagh, and Denizhan Pak). In: Sabine von Mering and Monika Hübscher (eds.), Antisemitismus in den Sozialen Medien. Verlag Barbara Budrich: 2024, 269-292. [This is an updated German translation of the chapter “Towards an AI Definition of Antisemitism?”]
“Streiten um Definitionen des Antisemitismus.” In: Meron Mendel, Saba-Nur Cheema, and Sina Arnold (eds.), Frenemies: Antisemitismus, Rassismus und ihre Kritiker*innen, Verbrecher Verlag: 2022, 94–99.
“Les jeunes musulmans et la haine des Juifs.” In: J. Joëlle Allouche-Benayoun, Claudine Attias-Danfut, Gunther Jikeli, and Paul Zawadzki (eds.), L'antisémitisme contemporain en France. Rémanences ou émergences ?. Hermann: 2022, 223-248.
“Towards an AI Definition of Antisemitism?” (with Damir Cavar, Weejeong Jeong, Daniel Miehling, Pauravi Wagh, and Denizhan Pak). In: Sabine von Mering and Monika Hübscher (eds.), Antisemitism on Social Media. Routledge: 2022, 193-212.
“Antisemitismus unter Muslim/-innen in Deutschland” In: Julia Bernstein, Marc Grimm, and Stefan Müller (eds.), Schule als Spiegel der Gesellschaft Antisemitismen erkennen und handeln. Wochenschau Verlag: 2022, 288-313.
“What Motivates Non-Jewish Scholars in Germany to Study Anti-Semitism?” [in Arabic] In: Al-Mesbar Studies & Research Center monthly book: January 2022, 155-182.
“Attitudes of Syrian and Iraqi Refugees in Germany toward Jews.” In: Armin Lange, Kerstin Mayerhofer, Dina Porat, and Lawrence H. Schiffmann (eds.), Confronting Antisemitism in Modern Media, the Legal and Political Worlds. De Gruyter: 2021, 239–268.
“Antisemitismus unter Geflüchteten aus Syrien und dem Irak.“ In: Nikolaus Hagen and Tobias Neuburger (eds.), Antisemitismus in der Migrationsgesellschaft. Theoretische Überlegungen, Empirische Fallbeispiele, Pädagogische Praxis. Insbruck University Press: 2020, 121-146.
“L’antisémitisme musulman : pourquoi la gauche n’en parle pas et la droite en parle trop.“ In: Annick Duraffour, Philippe Gumplowicz, Grégoire Kauffmann, Isabelle de Mecquenem, and Paul Zawadzki (eds.), La modernité disputée. Textes offerts à Pierre-André Taguieff. CNRS Editions: 2020, 45-55.
“Antisemitismus in der Flüchtlingsdebatte und unter Geflüchteten.“ In: Samuel Salzborn (ed.), Antisemitismus seit 9/11. Ereignisse, Debatten, Kontroversen. Nomos: 2019, 301-326.
“Discrimination against Muslims and Antisemitic Views among Young Muslims in Europe.” In: Mikael Shainkman (ed.), Antisemitism Today and Tomorrow: Global Perspectives on the Many Faces of Contemporary Antisemitism. Academic Studies Press: 2018, 101-124.
“Muslimischer Antisemitismus in Europa. Aktuelle Ergebnisse der empirischen Forschung.” In: Marc Grimm and Bodo Kahmann (eds.), Antisemitimus im 21. Jahrhundert. De Gruyter: 2018, 113-135.
“L’antisémitisme chez les jeunes musulmans de France.” In: D. Schnapper, P. Salmona, and P. Nahum (eds.), L’Antisémitisme en France XIXe-XXIe siècle. Les Editions Odile Jacob: 2016, 215-230.
“Anti-Semitism within the Extreme Right and Islamists’ Circles.“ In: O. Glöckner and H. Fireberg (eds.), Being Jewish in 21st-Century Germany. De Gruyter: 2015, 188-207.
“A Framework for Assessing Antisemitism: Three Case Studies (Dieudonné, Erdoğan, and Hamas).” In: A. H. Rosenfeld (ed.), Deciphering the New Antisemitism. Indiana University Press: 2015, 43-76.
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